PTC Windchill Product Lifecycle Management on AWS

Highly available and load balanced configuration of Windchill on AWS that automatically scales on demand.
Users can connect to the system via a
1 Web browser, Office apps, CAD tool or
1 AWS Cloud mobile devices.
Elastic Load Balancing directs user traffic to
2 the Windchill web servers based on
Users Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2
availability of the application on each node.
VPC Elastic Load Balancing directs traffic to
3
Public subnet 2 the Method Servers for client transactions
Public subnet and interactions with other systems.
Background Server running on Amazon
4 EC2 instance performs dynamic generation
Windchill Web Servers ELB Windchill Web Servers of content for the end users or backend
systems.
On-Premises
Private subnet Windchill cluster uses CAD/Doc Workers
3 Private subnet 5 to create PDF version of CAD and Office
AWS VPN
10 11
content and stores them in Amazon S3.
Solr Index Server on Amazon EC2, used for
Replication Directory AWS Direct
6 key word searches that include searching
Server Foreground Method Servers ELB Foreground Method Servers
Services Connect across metadata stored in the database
4 6 4 6 9 Utilize PTC Solution Monitor (PSM) as a
7 real time performance monitoring tool for
Background Background the system, application and database.
Method Server 5 Index Server
Method Server 5 Index Server
10 7 Amazon RDS database is used to store
7 Amazon S3 8
… … metadata for the application configured
with synchronous replication across AZs.
CAD/Doc Workers PSM CAD/Doc Workers PSM The Windchill application uses the
Windchill running
VPC Peering 9 Amazon S3 file storage to store content
in separate region Database subnet files.
Synchronous Database subnet
8 Replication 8 Windchill replicates content for user
10 collaboration using Replication Server across
Amazon RDS Primary Amazon RDS Replica Windchill workloads using VPC Peering.
Integrate corporate LDAP for both
11 authentication and account management
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